March 11 • Blackbourne
Q. So would you agree with me that one reasonable interpretation of the evidence that you found is that she did not die by strangulation?

MR. DUSEK: Objection. Calls for speculation.

THE COURT: Overruled.

THE WITNESS: As I stated, I did not find any of the injuries we normally associate with strangulation.

May 7, 2002Prosecution: Evidence suggests Danielle was strangled

Danielle van Dam's body was missing several teeth, leading authorities to believe the 7-year-old might have been strangled to death when someone stuffed something into her mouth, a prosecutor disclosed today.
(But we knew on Februry 28th Danielle was missing teeth. We knew before Danielle went missing she was missing teeth. And we also know that on March 4th two of the four missing teeth were inside Danielle's mouth and the two teeth that she was missing before she went missing were still missing.
Danielle had as many teeth in her mouth when she went missing as she did when Sperber and Co. were done on March 4th, the second visit from him and from SDPD. It's ALL wrong!!! It's all so OBVIOUS, isn't it?)

June 4
WHAT HE CAN'T ELIMINATE IS SUFFOCATION, SOMEBODY PUTTING THEIR HAND OR PILLOW OVER SOMEONE'S NOSE AND MOUTH. AND IF YOU DO IT HARD ENOUGH, YOU CAUSE SOME DAMAGE TO FACE THAT MIGHT LOOSEN THE TEETH. WHEN YOU HEAR DR. SPERBER EXPLAIN HOW SHE HAD A LONG CROWN IS WHAT THEY CALL IT, THE WHITE PART HE WILL CALL THE CROWN, WHAT SUPPORTS INSIDE IS A ROOT. SHE HAD A VERY SHORT ROOT, LONG CROWN, WHICH GAVE HER VERY LITTLE LEVERAGE, VERY LITTLE STRENGTH ON HER TEETH. BUT HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ELIMINATE STRANGULATION OF THIS CHILD.

HE IS FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT HE COULD ELIMINATE THAT SHE WAS A STRANGULATION VICTIM BECAUSE THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE NECK MUSCLES AND THE OTHER ORGANS THAT ARE INSIDE THE NECK. POISON WAS ELIMINATED. DISEASE WAS ELIMINATED.

Blackbourne • June 5
Q. WERE YOU ABLE TO RULE OUT SUFFOCATION AS A CAUSE OF DEATH?
A. NO. I WAS UNABLE TO RULE IT OUT.

Q. WHY NOT?
A. I -- AGAIN, THERE'S NO POSITIVE FINDINGS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANY POSITIVE FINDINGS, SO IT'S HARD TO RULE IT OUT.

Blackbourne • June 6

Q: YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO CONCLUDE, DO YOU, THAT DANIELLE VAN DAM WAS STRANGLED?
A: NO.
(Again, that was common knowledge before March 5th. When did the missing teeth suggest Danielle had been strangled? Who suggested Danielle had been strangled based upon the missing teeth evidence?)

July 29
MR. BOYCE: WELL, YOUR HONOR, THEY PRESENTED EVIDENCE THROUGH DR. BLACKBOURNE THAT THE -- HE COULD NOT RULE OUT THE CAUSE OF DEATH BEING SUFFOCATION.

THEY ALSO ATTEMPTED TO PRESENT EVIDENCE THAT THE TEETH WERE MISSING FROM THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE. THAT'S CERTAINLY EVIDENCE OF PREMEDITATION AND DELIBERATION, THE MANNER IN WHICH THE HOMICIDE OCCURRED.

...Q. DID YOU ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SHE HAD BEEN A STRANGULATION VICTIM?
A. YES. IN REGARD TO THE NECK MUSCLES, I EXAMINED THE SKIN. UNDER THE SKIN THERE WAS NO HEMORRHAGE. THE LARGE MUSCLES OF THE STERNUM COLLATERAL MASTOID MUSCLES RUN DOWN THE SIDE OF YOUR NECK, AND THE OPENING IN THE FRONT NO HEMORRHAGE IN THEM. NORMALLY WE SEE INJURY IN THERE BY THE LARYNX.

March 11 = suffocation not strangulationMay 7 = strangulation not suffocationJune 4 = suffocation not strangulationJuly 29 = suffocation not strangulation
(But, but, but, we know she was murdered. If she was murdered, there was no motive, cause of death, place of death or time of death. Yet, the insurance company paid!!)

Q. CAN YOU TAKE THE BLUE FELT PEN AND CIRCLE THAT PANEL FOR US?
A. (WITNESS COMPLYING.)

Q. ALL RIGHT. YOU'VE CIRCLED THAT FOR US. IS THERE ANOTHER PANEL IN THE HOUSE?
A. THERE'S ONE DOWNSTAIRS.
(At 1:56, Damon fails to notice or hear the alarm even though the alarm panel is in the master bedroom, next to the door?
Brenda and crew arrive in the house and another alarm light is triggered and the annoying chirping sound goes off again?
Now there should be two lights lit on the alarm and a few chirps or beeps happening, but Damon doesn't notice?
It's getting very, very deep around here. Puttin' on my waders, just in case the BS River tops it's banks.

Wait, what did Barbara remember about the alarms? Keith? Rich? Denise?

How many adults were actually at the van Dam home that morning?)

Wait a minute. What's this?)

Feb. 4Damon van Dam, told investigators he woke up around 1:30 a.m. Saturday to let out the family dog and noticed a burglar alarm light was blinking. He discovered a sliding glass door was open and he closed it.
(Now this makes sense. Damon wakes up, notices a light flashing on the alarm and discovers a door open. Closes it and the alarm light goes off.
Brenda comes home at 2:00 discovers an alarm light on and it's the garage door. She closes it.

3:00 Damon wakes up and repeats the events from 1:30 am.

You see why they weren't allowed to talk. "Everything you say, can and will ... eventually.")

A few days ago, the van Dams began to get questions on television about their private life. Delicate questions became pointed yesterday when San Diego radio talk-show host Rick Roberts criticized the van Dams on the air for "not being honest" about "what really occurred" the night their daughter disappeared.

Roberts told his listeners that a "reliable" source "high in law enforcement" said the van Dams have engaged in "lots of wife-swapping." Saying he believes the source, Roberts reported activity by the van Dams on the night of Feb. 1 dramatically different from their description to the news media.

But they still have so many questions about what happened the night Westerfield kidnapped Danielle.

"I'd still like to know for sure how he got into the house, and how he got her," Collins said.
(Why don't you ask Damon how could he miss the alarm lights that many times in one night.)

Quote:

A few days ago, the van Dams began to get questions on television about their private life. Delicate questions became pointed yesterday when San Diego radio talk-show host Rick Roberts criticized the van Dams on the air for "not being honest" about "what really occurred" the night their daughter disappeared.

Roberts told his listeners that a "reliable" source "high in law enforcement" said the van Dams have engaged in "lots of wife-swapping." Saying he believes the source, Roberts reported activity by the van Dams on the night of Feb. 1 dramatically different from their description to the news media.

Q: WHAT WAS THAT? FIRST OF ALL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MANNER OF DEATH?
A: WELL, WE HAVE FIVE MANNERS OF DEATH: HOMICIDE, SUICIDE, ACCIDENT, NATURAL, AND UNDETERMINED. AND IN THIS CASE I DETERMINED THAT IT WOULD BE A HOMICIDE.

Q: WHY, DOCTOR?
A: BASED ON THE WHOLE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATH. THE FACT THAT SHE WAS REMOVED FROM HER BED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
(At what time? 1:30 am? 1:45 am? A little after 2 am? Sometime before 3:30 am?

MR. FELDMAN: OBJECTION. ASSUMES FACTS NOT IN EVIDENCE.

THE COURT: SUSTAINED. JUST GIVE US YOUR CONCLUSIONS, DOCTOR.

THE WITNESS: WELL, I CONCLUDED IT WAS A HOMICIDE BASED ONTHE POSITION OF THE BODY, WHERE IT WAS FOUND, HOW FAR IT WAS AWAY FROM HER HOUSE, AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR HER FOR THREE WEEKS.

A few days ago, the van Dams began to get questions on television about their private life. Delicate questions became pointed yesterday when San Diego radio talk-show host Rick Roberts criticized the van Dams on the air for "not being honest" about "what really occurred" the night their daughter disappeared.

Roberts told his listeners that a "reliable" source "high in law enforcement" said the van Dams have engaged in "lots of wife-swapping." Saying he believes the source, Roberts reported [B]activity by the van Dams on the night of Feb. 1 dramatically different from their description to the news media.

Unnamed source:
In addition, I am told that during the weeks preceding February 25, Pfingst requested from the Police Dept a great deal of confidential and hurtful information about the Van Dams’ personal life, and embellishing it, gave it to KFMB talk show host Rick Roberts. He also told Roberts that Westerfield had flunked a polygraph and had in fact committed the crime. In addition, Pfingst told KOGO talk-show host Roger Hedgec-o-c-k off-mic, in the presence of Mark Pettine, during a later program, that Westerfield had committed the crime.
(If true, are there laws to prevent this kind of crap from happening? Are those laws ever enforced?
Is the current DA asleep at the wheel or was this just a professional courtesy?)

by 10News.com.
The police chief called the alleged genetic evidence "a very, very strong link" between the suspect and the missing girl. "I can't stress enough how strong that link is," Bejarano added.

In addition to the "small bloodstains" from Danielle that allegedly turned up on Westerfield's clothing and in his RV, traces of DNA found on a garment of the girl's in her room matched the suspect's, the chief said.

"On February 15, 2002 at about 1600 hours Brenda van Dam received a telephone call from an unknown male. The unidentified male asked Brenda van Dam if she wanted her daughter back. The unidentified male stated Danielle had been abused but was alive."

“Well, frankly, I don't see this as causing a problem for either side because there's no way -- well, I'm not going to comment on all of the evidence that indicates that she was still alive”- Judge William Mudd

Search: The hunt continues for a San Diego area 7-year-old, missing for two weeks. 'It gets harder each day,' her mother says.

February 15, 2002

SAN DIEGO — Two weeks after vanishing from her bedroom in an upscale neighborhood, 7-year-old Danielle van Dam is still missing and police say they are not close to an arrest.

On Thursday, between appearances on national television shows, Brenda and Damon van Dam met with reporters camped in front of their Sabre Springs home and made another emotional appeal for the return of their daughter.

"It gets harder each day," said Brenda van Dam, her voice breaking. "But I have to keep hope that she's alive and will come home. It's so hard for me to know that someone knows where my daughter is and it's not me. It's killing me."

Police have been investigating one of the Van Dams' neighbors, David Westerfield, 49, a self-employed engineer, whose home two doors away was searched Wednesday night for the third time. Westerfield has not been charged.

"We are focusing a lot of resources on this area [Westerfield]," Lt. Jim Collins said. "Obviously, we wouldn't do this if we thought it was a wild goose chase."
(Obviously.)

Police have taken a DNA sample from Westerfield. His recreational vehicle--which he drove to the Imperial Valley desert on the day Danielle disappeared--was impounded and examined by forensic experts.

Police said later that Westerfield had cleaned the vehicle before it was seized, and that they have searched the desert for clues without success. Damon van Dam said he plans to do his own search in the area today.

Westerfield, who lives alone, has retained one of the city's top criminal defense attorneys. Watched 24 hours a day by reporters and plainclothes police officers, Westerfield leaves his home only occasionally.

On Thursday, Wes Hill, a friend from Utah, arrived to show his support for Westerfield.

Meanwhile, the search for Danielle continued in numerous ways, including a Web site and a toll-free phone line, and with the help of a bloodhound on loan from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Hundreds of neighbors have been combing the brushy hillsides.

The Van Dams have posted a $25,000 reward for information leading to the girl's return. A bail bondsman has offered $50,000 and a retired telephone company owner $100,000.

And there has been widespread media attention. When the case was featured on television's "America's Most Wanted" last weekend, police received tips about numerous "sightings" of the girl, but none bore fruit. Psychics called to offer their assistance.

Within days of the girl's disappearance, police had interviewed sex offenders who live in the neighborhood, searched dozens of neighbors' homes and arranged for the Van Dams to take a lie-detector test. After the tests, police said the parents are not suspects.

Four public relations specialists from the San Diego office of Fleishman-Hillard Inc. offered free advice to the Van Dams on how to handle the media horde and still keep the story alive, in hopes that might help bring Danielle home.

"We're here to help muster the troops," said Lynn Rubenson of Fleishman-Hillard. "Danielle got a lot of coverage the first week, but then comes the Olympics, campaign finance reform, Daniel Pearl, and Danielle no longer is the top story. We're here to keep Danielle at the forefront."

John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted," and Marc Klaas, whose daughter, Polly, was abducted and murdered in 1993, have offered solace to the Van Dams and advice and encouragement on maintaining the search effort.

With the media attention have come questions about the Van Dams' lifestyle. They were asked by CNN talk show host Larry King whether they are "swingers" who may have brought strangers into their home.

The Van Dams' response, repeated for local reporters, has been calm and unvarying: The focus of the case should remain on finding Danielle and not on rumors about their private lives, they said. On the night her daughter disappeared, Brenda van Dam said she was at a local bar with friends and Damon was home with Danielle and the couple's two sons.

Damon van Dam said he put Danielle to bed around 10:30 p.m. About 2 a.m., according to Brenda van Dam, she returned home with four friends. Her husband joined them for pizza, she said.
(Depends upon whom one asks.)

About 9 a.m. Feb. 2, the Van Dams have said, they discovered Danielle missing and called police. They told investigators they found a sliding glass door in the family room and a side door to the garage were open. "Our home had been breached," said Damon van Dam.
(We just didn't realize it until somebody convinced us!)

Police said they interviewed the friends who accompanied Brenda van Dam home that night and concluded that they were not involved in Danielle's disappearance.

Westerfield was at the same bar that night but was not among those who accompanied Brenda van Dam home, police said.

The Van Dams have said that they barely know Westerfield and that he had never been invited to their home. They said Danielle sold Girl Scout cookies to Westerfield in the days before her disappearance.
(Grinding on the dance floor?)

"And that is -- this phone call that your daughter is alive, ($185,000) but she’s been abused, was on February 15th. Now, that’s the day before she’s basically - their expert -- somebody they called in, law enforcement’s person called in and said, you know, that this -- that this little girl was out there at Dehesa Road."
(Who called in? When did law enforcement's person call in? Who was law enforcement's person who called in and KNEW where Danielle's body was? The psychic? Collins? Damon? Who called Brenda on the 15th?)

“That he was speculatingall the women were using cocaine, but he had no evidence of that.”- From court documents
(Circumstantial evidence? Were they acting as if they had used cocaine? Did we focus on the wrong drug in this tragedy?)

The second thing is that now circumstances have changed a little bit in that now -- in fact, a lot, because now we have the testimony of the prosecution’s forensic entomologist who’s indicated that the body could not have been laying out there at Dehesa Road or at the time the post mortem time interval was from February 16th to February I think it was the 19th.

Feb. 15
And there has been widespread media attention. When the case was featured on television's "America's Most Wanted" last weekend, police received tips about numerous "sightings" of the girl, but none bore fruit. Psychics called to offer their assistance.

MR. BOYCE: THERE'S TWO WITH THIS DETECTIVE ON FEBRUARY 4TH. AND THERE'S ONE WITH MR. FISHER ON FEBRUARY 11TH I BELIEVE. FEBRUARY -- I'M SORRY. FEBRUARY 3RD. AT 1:00 O'CLOCK. WITH MR. FISHER. AND THEN THERE IS MISS -- THERE IS A TAPE RECORDING BETWEEN MISS DENISE KEMAL AND A PSYCHIC WHICH DOESN'T HAVE ANY RELEVANCE.

•An old friend, Toni Mulhauser, living in San Diego, called Robin because the local news wanted psychics to locate Danielle Van Damme.Her body was found on Highway 138 within 24 hours. She knew when the cameras showed the neighbor, David Westerfield, that he was the killer.

Tidbit: The tip to the Recovery Center was on 2/26. A woman called in the tip. She claimed to be psychic and gave a description of the area and told them it needed to be searched again. It was not a Bill Garcia hunch as we suspected or were led to believe.

Public desperate to help solve case, police say
March 10, 2002More than 900 tips were e-mailed and phoned to police in the nearly four weeks from the time she was taken from her bedroom in Sabre Springs to when her body was found beneath an oak tree in Dehesa. Some were helpful, others were not. None led to the discovery of Danielle or to the arrest of a neighbor who has been charged with kidnapping, murder and possession of child pornography in connection with the abduction.

...A: HELD ON TO THEM. AND THE MOMENT I REALIZED I WATCHED ON THE NEWS, I -- THE MOMENT I REALIZED THE BODY WAS MOVED PRIOR TO A TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR PERIOD GOING AROUND TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THE SAME TYPE OF PHOTOS, I THOUGHT MAYBE MY PHOTOS COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE OR COULD POSSIBLY BE CONSIDERED SOMETHING THAT'S HELPFUL. SO I CALLED THE D. A.
(Dude testified the body was moved? He had photographic proof the body had been moved? OK, now what? Who moved the body and let's see the proof? Does it still exist? Of course it does. Just ask the dude who took the digital photos. Pretty basic detective work, eh?)

......BY MR. DUSEK:
Q DID YOU SEE THE TESTIMONY FROM DAVID FAULKNER THAT HE THOUGHT THE BODY WAS POSSIBLY COVERED BECAUSE THERE WERE SO FEW, SO LITTLE ACTIVITY IN THE HEAD REGION?

...Q. AND YOU WERE AWARE THAT THE SHEET ITSELF APPARENTLY HAD BEEN ROLLED AROUND DANIELLE VAN DAM?
A. THAT IT HAD BEEN WRAPPED AROUND HER BODY?

Q. YES.
A. NO. ACTUALLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT. I JUST -- THE INFORMATION I HAVE IS WHAT'S WRITTEN ON THE PACKAGING THAT IT WAS A SHEET TAKEN FROM AROUND HER BODY.

Q. SO IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH IT WAS AROUND HER BODY IN SOME MANNER?
A. YES.
(Why not ask the person who collected the sheet? Any photos of the sheet taken at Dehesa? Any taken back at the lab? NO!!!
Only so much of the truth can be hidden. Eventually people do get it!!)

...A: I THINK -- I THINK INITIALLY I WAS THINKING MAYBE SOMETHING I DID COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND MAYBE IF A PHOTO THAT I HAD PRIOR TO ANY OTHER TAMPERING COULD HAVE MAYBE BENEFITTED. BUT THAT'S WHY.
(Why wasn't Feldman interested in this photographic evidence that suggested/proved evidence tampering at the recovery site?
Was anybody besides the searcher concerned with evidence tampering at the crime scene? Another reason for a new trial. You bet!!!)

Jeff Dusek's case history
• David Andrew Boysen, charged with murder in the beating and shooting deaths of his parents, Robert and Elsie Boysen in their Oceanside home Easter Sunday, April 6, 1980. A Vista judge dismissed the charges in 2005, saying the lengthy delay in filing the case and an incomplete investigation by Oceanside police violated David Boysen’s right to a fair trial. The decision was upheld on appeal.
(History WILL repeat!)

It sounds to me like everybody knows the rules of engagement and there won’t be any problems with it in terms of whether or not Barbara did a lap dance on Duane or Ryan. I don’t see that as opening anything up.- Judge William Mudd
(...and Damon only got a back rub? Maybe Barb could verify if Damon was home or not when they arrived. There is the letter that suggested something about "druggies and swingers".)

Lt. Collins told the Austin Police Department lessons learned during the van Dam case. He thinks the van Dam's home should have been secured immediately and sealed. and forensics specialists with expertise in homicide and sex crimes cases, should have performed the initial processing for evidence.

September 18, 2002
When police learned of Danielle's disappearance Feb. 2, they didn't have anything to go on.

"We had absolutely nothing," Collins said. "All we knew was that she was missing."

"...forensics specialists with expertise in homicide and sex crimes cases, should have performed the initial processing for evidence"...

..."absolutely nothing,"...

Dorie:
Q. How big a spot was it?
A. I didn't measure it. I could estimate.

Q. Please.
A. Approximately three inches.

Q. All right.
A. Long.

Q. And what about width?
A. I don't recall.

Q. Okay. And it's not something that you recorded in any location map?
A. Pardon me?

Q. Is it anything -- did you record in any locations the measurements of that particular potential blood stain?
A. That would have been recorded by detective Jerry Van Wey.

"...forensics specialists with expertise in homicide and sex crimes cases, should have performed the initial processing for evidence"...

...VIOLENT CRIMES TASK FORCE...

...INVESTIGATES SPECIAL CRIMES...)

Collins:
Q. WERE YOU AWARE THAT WITH REGARD TO A BLOODSTAIN, THAT THERE DID, IN FACT, EXIST A BLOOD STAIN ON THE CEMENT?
A. NO, I WAS NOT.

Q. WERE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPERVISING AN OFFICER NAMED VAN WEY?
A. HE WAS PART OF THE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM THAT WAS ALREADY THERE WHEN I ARRIVED.

Q. OKAY. AND WHEN I -- I'M SORRY. WAS MR. VAN WEY, IS HE ROBBERY OR IS HE HOMICIDE, DO YOU KNOW?
A. HE WORKS NORTHEASTERN INVESTIGATIONS.

Q. IS THERE A DISTINCTION? OR COULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN.
A. THE AREA COMMAND IS NORTHEASTERN AREA COMMAND. THEY HAVE PATROL AND INVESTIGATIVE PERSONNEL. HE IS PART OF THE NORTHEASTERN AREA COMMAND INVESTIGATIONS.

Q. OKAY. BUT HE'S ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD -- WAS HE A UNIFORMED OFFICER ON FEBRUARY 2ND?
A. NO. HE WAS IN PLAIN CLOTHES.
(Nothing to go on and all of these "special" folks from law enforcement everywhere? What was robbery doing while the Northeastern Area Command Investigations was making maps of bloodstains at the crime scene?)

...Collins:
Q. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT ASSIGNMENT IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT?
A. I'M IN CHARGE OF THE ROBBERY AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT.

Q. WHAT'S THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT?
A. HALF OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIOLENT CRIMES TASK FORCE AND FUGITIVE APPREHENSION. THE OTHER HALF INVESTIGATES SPECIAL CRIMES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
(Did Van Wey report to Collins or Duncan?)

Danielle van Dam's body was missing several teeth, leading authorities to believe the 7-year-old might have been strangled to death when someone stuffed something into her mouth, a prosecutor disclosed today.

May 08, 2002
As lawyers argued over numerous pretrial motions, Dusek for the first time said prosecutors believe that Westerfield suffocated Danielle,knocking out several of her teeth in the process. The county medical examiner testified at a preliminary hearing that the body was too badly decomposed for him to determine how she was killed.

"It is probably just as likely that Danielle was killed in the parlor with a candlestick by Col. Mustard," Dusek scoffed in a reference to the popular board game "Clue."

Quote:

Originally Posted by donttellthejury

MR. BOYCE: AND SHE COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE ROOM, TOO, IN HER BEDROOM.THERE'S BLOOD IN THE BEDROOM. I MEAN THOSE ARE -- I'M NOT SAYING WE ARE RELYING ON THOSE THEORIES, BUT THOSE ARE CERTAINLY THEORIES THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND THERE'S BEEN NO EVIDENCE AS TO WHERE, WHEN, OR HOW SHE WAS MURDERED.

"And that is -- this phone call that your daughter is alive, ($185,000) but she’s been abused, was on February 15th. Now, that’s the day before she’s basically - their expert -- somebody they called in, law enforcement’s person called in and said, you know, that this -- that this little girl was out there at Dehesa Road."
(Who called in? When did law enforcement's person call in? Who was law enforcement's person who called in and KNEW where Danielle's body was? The psychic? Collins? Damon? Who called Brenda on the 15th?)

That was an extract from Laura Schaefer's statement to Judge Mudd on July 22, in unsealed document westerfield18, page 8075. She was referring to Faulkner. The way it's phrased suggests someone in LE phoned in with this information. Laura should rather have said "... WAS called in and said ...).

That was an extract from Laura Schaefer's statement to Judge Mudd on July 22, in unsealed document westerfield18, page 8075. She was referring to Faulkner. The way it's phrased suggests someone in LE phoned in with this information. Laura should rather have said "... WAS called in and said ...).

Faulkner:
Q BASED UPON -- BY THE WAY, IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY WERE YOU DOING ANY WORK IN THE AREA OF SINGING HILLS?
A I ACTUALLY HAD BEEN COLLECTING INSECTS IN THAT GENERAL AREA UP ABOVE WHERE THE BODY WAS RECOVERED, UP IN THE CREST RIDGE AREA.

Q SO YOU HAD ACTUALLY BEEN EXPERIENCING THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN CALLED UPON BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO COME TO THE AUTOPSY ON THE 28TH, --
A YES.

"...law enforcement’s person (was) called in and said, you know, that this -- that this little girl was out there at Dehesa Road."
(After the 27th, everybody knew Danielle was at Dehesa. Did the caller on the 15th mention Dehesa? When I spoke with Feldman many years ago, I asked him if the caller on the 15th mentioned Dehesa, he said he couldn't answer that question.

I understand where you're coming from Steve17, but why did the sentence end at Dehesa Road and not give dates or any other information?)

Complete text - transcribed by me.Ms. Schaefer: All right. If we can, we could go to the motion to admit the evidence of the February 15th telephone call. I understand that your honor has ruled at sidebar that that evidence, that telephone call is not going to be admitted, but I wanted to bring to the court’s attention the search warrant affidavit which was issued based on that telephone call. And I think that provides a sufficient indicia of trustworthiness to the telephone call. And specifically I wanted to point the court to the statement by a detective who conducted a lot of investigation, initial investigation, in this case, Detective Alldredge.

He indicated that basically his experience and training revealed the persons involved in child abduction cases keep in contact with their victims.

“They do because the crime requires the perpetrator to be in contact with their victims, that based on conversations with F.B.I. agents that handle hundreds of child abduction cases throughout the world, I’m aware of sometimes the perpetrator will call the victims to provide location of the abducted child.”

Now, at this point in time, this is February 15th, now, the forensic entomologist has basically -- so this, a search warrant issued based on this telephone call to Brenda van Dam, and that is an indication that law enforcement took this very seriously. And I think that certainly is an indication of trustworthiness. In fact, a magistrate issued a search warrant based on this phone call to the van Dams.

The second thing is that now circumstances have changed a little bit in that now -- in fact, a lot, because now we have the testimony of the prosecution’s forensic entomologist who’s indicated that the body could not have been laying out there at Dehesa Road or at the time the post mortem time interval was from February 16th to February I think it was the 19th.

And that is -- this phone call that your daughter is alive, but she’s been abused, was on February 15th. Now, that’s the day before she’s basically - their expert -- somebody they called in, law enforcement’s person called in and said, you know, that this -- that this little girl was out there at Dehesa Road.

MR. HEIMBURGER
Q: PHOTOGRAPHS A, B, AND C. WHAT DO THEY SHOW US?
A: I DON'T KNOW WHAT A IS. MAY I GET UP AND LOOK

Q: SURE.
A: OH. SORRY. THAT'S A BRIEFCASE.

Q: DO THEY APPEAR TO BE THE TREE AREA WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND?
A: YES.
(Did Danielle own a briefcase? Was the ransom money placed into a briefcase? Were Danielle's pajamas found in that briefcase? What does this briefcase have to do with this tragedy?
Kidnapping? Call from kidnapper? Ransom paid? Body found? Ransom gone? That's the way it's going down in my movie. Soon to be released on beta.)